Webback

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Noun

webback (plural webbacks)

  1. a work of fiction which is published in printed as well as eBook format[1] with addenda, glossaries, back-stories and tangentially linked information available online thereby extending the narrative as determined by the reader's curiosity[2] rather than the writer's design.

Notes

  • enhanced eBooks with hotlinks embedded into the text are not strictly webbacks, they're... um... e-ebooks[3]
  • one of the earliest examples of the webback was SLABSCAPE: RESET published in 2010 by [Blipbooks]
  • the next one in the series, SLABSCAPE: DAMMIT, published in 2014, was instrumental in making the dominant distribution channel of the day wake up and realise what they had created.

See also

Footnotes and references

  1. back in the days before Neural Implants virtually eliminated textural reading
  2. often, subjecting themselves to Linktrigue
  3. maybe